Sports are a pathetic institution when they’re more about competition than fun.

Life is competitive enough.

Sports are games.

Games are supposed to be inclusive and fun.

Society taking games deathly serious (and equivocating it with academic merit, aka serious pursuits) is the problem.

People rioting and murdering if the game didn’t work out for their team is the problem. Putting billion dollar stakes on games is the problem.

Trans people or any people wanting to play games with their friends should be what society fosters and nurtures as the entire fucking point of society’s existence. Something something… planting trees something something knowing they’ll never sit under…

Nope? let’s bring on the climate change induced extinction then. If our values are hyper competitive, dog eat dog bullshit, let us go extinct.

“a great economy” for the top 10% being supported by a massive underclass.

An American tradition to be sure. Slaves to Jim Crow to immigrants, but now most are that underclass.

And they’ll still call this a healthy economy, lol, as only those of capital means are human to the capitalists. Everyone else is livestock. Welcome to Panem.

https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/

May the capital markets burn to the ground. At least climate change will do what we should have in a couple decades when it doesn’t matter anymore.

Americans betrayed one another since Reagan under the capitalist call of “you can get more, just fuck over the fellow Americans that you don’t like” for over half a century. When’s the last time a party has said a god damned thing about solving a relatively easy problem for a wealthy nation: ending homelessness?

The incoming pain is well earned.

I’m going to think of all the burgeoning socialist regimes we’ve destabilized through soft power and military action, places that wanted to be societies of people that lifted one another up, in the name of keeping exploitation markets open to our capitalists, now that the bill for our mass cultural malice both within and without has come due when I’m feeling the pain.

How about you? Will you acknowledge our nation’s decades of unrepentant malice when your family is hungry? Or blame it on the for profit media pushed powerless scapegoats dejour like the homeless or immigrant neighbors we’ve failed and often ironically vocally resent?

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He’s doing this on purpose so the oligarchs can buy the dip and own even more.

Don’t mistake malice for incompetence, or vice versa. Trump is often incompetent, especially in live interactions, his tariff game ain’t it, it’s part of all he’s there for: self-enrichment.

He already called them on and back off once this term to do just that. Calling such moves idiocy instead of a plan to further drain wealth from the many to the pre-informed few plays right into it.

Yet another example of why the capital markets are the bane of human civilization in innumerable ways, undermining and sabotaging entire societies to accelerate short term growth/metastasis.

The capital markets will be destroyed either by the people out of self preservation, or by capital market made climate change after it doesn’t matter anymore for humans. I take solace in knowing this con game won’t last another century either way, as the tumor of unchecked human greed will destroy its own host if not cut out by force.

Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you’ll never really know who invented it in the writer’s room.

"Who I am is where I stand.

Where I stand is where I fall."

-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who

I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I’ll never get it out. That doesn’t stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you’ll be remembered as isn’t your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.

…When the derp comes around…

I say this as an American who served in the military for college money (I knew this place was shite even then but our country makes the poor very desperate)

They need to kick our military bases the fuck out of Europe. We have betrayed any goodwill. Those bases are a springboard and advantage for our geopolitical interests, not theirs.

And by geopolitical interests, I mean pushing to gain more exploitation markets for our capitalists 🤮

I have ideas about a targeted solution that would leave about 99.5% of the population better off, and provide the other 0.5% a peace they prove constantly on no uncertain terms by how they live they would never be capable of attaining in any other way.

I wish I was allowed to say it.

The gallows funniest bit about this whole situation is that the ones perpuating it aren’t happy either, even in victory. They could have 50 quadrillion dollars and their own space station mansion, and they still wouldn’t be satisfied, because our civilization rewards a very specific kind of dangerous mental illness.

They should be getting care in secure mental health facilities to keep society safe from their avarice, the kind they defunded for tax cuts through captured government.

It is inevitable that capitalists will conquer their state, but with constant vigilance, for a time, capitalism can and is used as an engine to serve society, so long as it is heavily regulated and hobbled. The Nordic nations for example.

It’s when the capitalists begin to be allowed to influence their government, and convince the people THEY can live larger than their neighbors if it weren’t for all the social equity evil government enforces, capitalism’s signature siren call.

The Nordic countries still have free to roam policies. Capitalism here capturing their own regulators and being allowed to warp public opinion with blatant self serving lies through for profit media pulpits make some Americans eager to shoot other Americans.

I’m not for capitalism at all because it eventually leads here, to fascism, and eventually someone in power will be dumb or corrupt enough to let their guard down. But we let our capitalists conquer our government, as have several western nations. And here we are.

Never forget, the fruit of the tree of capitalism is fascism.

Capitalism unrestrained and left to do its thing, as it has, always leads to fascism. Fascism is the takeover of the state by the capitalists.

This is why fascism is blooming all over the western world. The global capitalist economy is simply in full bloom sitting on entirely captured nation states and fruiting.

The fruit being concentration camps, war, poverty, and scapegoating. Anything to blame literally anyone and everything else for all the inhuman malice the capitalists are doing to attempt to satiate their unquenchable greed.

If anyone still cares about maybe not ending the world for humanity, the capital markets must be destroyed, and speculative investment by passive robber barons not actively participating in laboring to produce products and services must be outlawed. But don’t worry, we’ll fade into the oblivion of greed made climate change out of cowardice. We’ll probably be grateful to die to that after the Fascists have had their fun.

It really should be policy to allow at least the seat(s) next to the deceased (I understand not moving the body for coroner/investigation reasons, though they did in this case at which point why not put them in a bathroom and guard It you have extras) use any surplus steward seats or those staff seats in the cockpit for employees.

Just basic decency in the event of an extreme circumstance.

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Republican women: dehumanizing themselves to pwn the libs since Reagan.

Certainly not plenty, given what’s happening.

And I don’t mean empty rhetorical reverence.

Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren’t perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.

Those with practiced reverence towards the natural world don’t fare well amongst our species. We jail them for ecoterrorism and genocide their cultures because they get in the way of economic and population metastasis, sadly because we consider our God to be subject to us and not the other way around as we’re going to learn in the coming decades by our own actions and hubris.

I mean “learn” loosely. Sadly many wouldn’t admit to themselves we were wrong or abandon currency as their god even if a CAT 6 just hurled a bus at their head.

To me it’s ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God: the living Earth.

All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.

We’re so weird. We have a creator. The natural world. And we’ve been in a hot war with that only actual God of humans for about a quarter millenia, lol.

We’ll lose handily. And life will go on.

I could have sworn I was taught our persistent atmosphere was a function of being larger than Mars and therefore having more mass so more gravitational pull to keep our atmosphere from meaningfully escaping over time.